{"id":23847,"date":"2026-05-13T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=23847"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:33:59","slug":"codger-in-china-trumps-diplomatic-junket-off-to-a-wobbly-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/13\/codger-in-china-trumps-diplomatic-junket-off-to-a-wobbly-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Codger in China: Trump&#8217;s Diplomatic Junket Off to a Wobbly Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t going to go well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Semafor: Trump arrives in China facing reduced ambitions &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/05\/13\/2026\/trumps-reduced-china-ambitions-ahead-of-summit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline: A planeful of oligarchs &#8211; Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Brett Ratner &#8211; arrive in China with aging, Melania-less Trump &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/trump-brett-ratner-china-1236899872\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <strike>Showing desperation<\/strike>\u2026 er\u2026  Facing headwinds at home, Trump signals eagerness to make deals at China summit &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/13\/trump-arrives-china-meet-with-xi-jinping-taiwan-trade-iran\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: A decade on, Trump returns to a stronger and more assertive China &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2py6l78dxo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NY Times: How China Could Wield Its Control of Rare Earths Against Trump &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/business\/china-trump-xi-rare-earths.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t going to go well\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23851,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847\/revisions\/23851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}